It’s a rare event for any foreigner to be in contact with the leader-recluse Kim Jong-il of North Korea. But making pizza for him? Indeed. Here’s the article: [BBC: Making pizza for Kim Jong-il]:http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3559266.stm . It’s worth a listen online. The audio segment(I made pizza for Kim Jong-il) is supposed to air on [BBC’s Radio 3]:http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/ at around 2:40pm PDT, but I will probably forget. If you do listen, post a comment here, or on your own blog(and give me a trackback so I can read it).<\/p>\n
While North Korea has [horrible prison camps]:http:\/\/www.hrnk.org\/hiddengulag\/toc.html , [horrifying human rights]:http:\/\/www.nkfreedom.org\/important_nk_topics.html, and [virtually no freedom for individuals]:http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/shows\/russia\/map_nkorea.html , at least their great leader still gets to fly in foreign chefs to teach cooking cuisine to selected chefs. (sigh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s a rare event for any foreigner to be in contact with the leader-recluse Kim Jong-il of North Korea. But making pizza for him? Indeed. Here’s the article: [BBC: Making pizza for Kim Jong-il]:http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3559266.stm . It’s worth a listen online. …<\/p>\n